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Alan Kelly (Trinity College Dublin) at the 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference: 'The 'Tudor Columba' of Manus O'Donnell, c.1532'.

Dr Gerard Farrell (Trinity College Dublin) at the 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference: 'The distribution of land between native Irish and servitors in the Ulster plantation'.

Patrick Hayes (Trinity College Dublin) at the 2017 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference: 'Hazards to Marine Activity: Extreme Weather and Piracy in Irish and Adjacent Waters, 1535-1660'.

Alan Kelly (TCD) at the 2016 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. 'For the herbes dyd never growe': The State of Ireland (1515), political discourse and literary conceit.

Dr John Cunningham (QUB) at the 2016 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference. The apothecary in early modern Ireland

Broadcast on 24th February 2011  IMAGE:  Experts estimate that fossil-fuel burning power plants, such as the one pictured here, a peat fired plant in Ireland at Shannonbridge, Co Offaly, lose up to 70 per cent of their energy through heat losses. New nano materials could change all that [Credit: Wikipedia]  WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? Genetics, past, present and future, explained by Ken Wolfe, Trinity College Dublin (TCD) head of the only Irish laboratory involved in The Human Genome Project.  THE QUESTION IS? We lose over 70 per cent of the energy - as heat - generated by fossil-fuel burning  power plants. Can nano materials improve things? We ask TCD nano researcher Jonathan Coleman.  WRITER'S ROOM Ireland's county Waterford has produced many of Ireland's most famous scientists, including Robert Boyle, of Boyle's Law fame, and Atom splitter, Ernest Walton. Author Donald Brady tells us more.  To contact the show email: sciencespinning@dublincityfm.ie For more about the Presenter & Producer, Seán Duke, click here.

Broadcast on 17th Feb. 2011 on 103.2 Dublin City FM  IMAGE: Solar Flare captured on the Sun by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on 8th Sept. 2010 [Credit: NASA]  What's it all about? Solar flares explained by Peter Gallagher, astrophysicist based at TCD.  The question is? We see only four per cent of the 'stuff' the Universe is made up of. Where is the invisible 'dark matter' and what is it doing? We ask Paul Callanan, physicist at UCC. Writer's room. We talk to Christian Gerondeau, author of 'Climate: The Great Delusion' To contact the show, email: sciencespinning@dublincityfm.ie